Alex is a young, ultra-wealthy millionaire living in Los Angeles. He buys a mansion in Bel Air from a pop star, so the house is legally his.
Later, Alex has an affair with his cousin’s wife, Maya. They have a child together, but Alex and Maya are not married. (nor have they ever been married they had a one night stand and a child together)
Question:
Does Maya have any legal right to Alex’s Bel Air mansion simply because they have a child together, even though they are not married?
Same question applies if genders are reversed.
I had sole custody of one of my kids, and not only could i not get child support, i was still having to pay support to the other parent.
Murica
My (adopted) step father got custody over my mother for my siblings and I. My mother was on disability, so we got SSI checks (like $40 bucks a month per kid, in the late 1990’s. He never paid her nothing after the divorce (she got the house, then promptly got it forclosed on).
this has to be the dumbest thing i’ve read today.
it should be mentioned that i am not attacking you (the person who said they had to pay child support) … i’m attacking a system that would allow this. what in the taco bell shitting hell was going through a persons head when they wrote that law?
Sometimes it’s not the wording of the law but the way it’s implemented. Sometimes the law can seem quite egalitarian, but that doesn’t help if the mother is always assumed both the default custodian and less income. Thats no longer as true as it used to be but judges can be old fashioned
What the law says and what happens can be very different unfortunately.